On November 3, 2025, at 4:29 P.M., Officer Leonard was dispatched to the 2200 block of Duluth Street, Maplewood, County of Ramsey, on a male who was threatening to shoot himself while speaking on the phone with his ex-girlfriend, ALK. Officer Leonard arrived and spoke with ALK who said she called 911. ALK said JOSHUA JEREMIAH CLEMONS, [DOB REDACTED], said he would shoot himself. ALK told officers CLEMONS called her at 4:04 P.M. On November 3rd and made suicidal statements. He also threatened to kill himself if she followed others on Instagram or accepted requests to follow others.
ALK said CLEMONS assaulted her on October 31, 2025. She and CLEMONS were in a relationship from March 2024 to August 2025, when she tried to break up with him. CLEMONS told her that things would not end until it was mutually agreed, and he did not agree. She ghosted him from August 2025 until October 20205. On October 31, 2025, she went to his apartment on Duluth Street. They were drinking and were intoxicated. At around 10:00 P.M., while in the living room, CLEMONS went through her iPad and saw messages between her and other men during the time they were separated.
CLEMONS accused her of cheating. CLEMONS slapped her three or four times on the right side of her face with an open hand. He slapped her twice on the left side of her face. CLEMONS grabbed her by her hair and dragged her around. She fell to the ground and CLEMONS kicked and stomped on her back and stomach. CLEMONS choked her three times throughout the incident using both hands wrapped around her neck. She struggled to speak while she was being choked and felt as if she would pass out. She believes she could have passed out because she could not recall what happened during the last time she was choked.
ALK said it was difficult to see when she was being choked. CLEMONS left the living room and went into his bedroom. CLEMONS returned to the living room with a black handgun about a minute later. He waved the handgun around and asked her questions about the men she had been speaking to. CLEMONS “nudged” the gun into her arm, and said, “I am going to kill you.” Around 12:00 A.M., CLEMONS calmed down and put the handgun into his backpack. CLEMONS began making suicidal statements. He grabbed a lighter and began burning himself.
CLEMONS tried to grab the handgun out of the backpack multiple times, but she shoved him away and prevented him from grabbing it. CLEMONS apologized to her and said, “You deserve to be hit, but I shouldn’t have done it.” In a subsequent conversation with an investigator, ALK described the handgun as black, and resembling a Glock. ALK said CLEMONS keeps the handgun in a black Louis Vuitton patterned crossbody bag. AMK went to the Maplewood Police Department where her injuries were photographed. AMK had bruising on her chin, right side of her face above her lip, on the right ear, right arm, left arm, and right leg.
